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authorSteve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com>2010-03-18 22:18:41 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-03-18 22:18:41 -0700
commit11bc3088373e913f165a8652601c6f8b8dc4aea2 (patch)
tree5a82487caf4de60681ac0bd743bfeba4851254b8 /drivers/net
parent0ecad5a262923967147e2d1725e277a2a5fbcdd4 (diff)
downloadlinux-11bc3088373e913f165a8652601c6f8b8dc4aea2.tar.gz
smsc95xx: Fix tx checksum offload for small packets
TX checksum offload does not work properly when transmitting
UDP packets with 0, 1 or 2 bytes of data.  This patch works
around the problem by calculating checksums for these packets
in the driver.

Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c18
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c b/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c
index d222d7e25273..73f9a31cf94d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c
@@ -1189,9 +1189,21 @@ static struct sk_buff *smsc95xx_tx_fixup(struct usbnet *dev,
 	}
 
 	if (csum) {
-		u32 csum_preamble = smsc95xx_calc_csum_preamble(skb);
-		skb_push(skb, 4);
-		memcpy(skb->data, &csum_preamble, 4);
+		if (skb->len <= 45) {
+			/* workaround - hardware tx checksum does not work
+			 * properly with extremely small packets */
+			long csstart = skb->csum_start - skb_headroom(skb);
+			__wsum calc = csum_partial(skb->data + csstart,
+				skb->len - csstart, 0);
+			*((__sum16 *)(skb->data + csstart
+				+ skb->csum_offset)) = csum_fold(calc);
+
+			csum = false;
+		} else {
+			u32 csum_preamble = smsc95xx_calc_csum_preamble(skb);
+			skb_push(skb, 4);
+			memcpy(skb->data, &csum_preamble, 4);
+		}
 	}
 
 	skb_push(skb, 4);